MEN AND MONEY

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 42, 18 August 1914, Page 8

MEN AND MONEY

DUNEDIN, This Day. Messra. Sargood, Son, and Ewen, answering the Premier's call upon the people of New Zealand, liave placed £2000 at the disposal of local organisations to be devoted to local relief. Cheques are forwarded to twelve places, including Auckland £400. Christchurck £500, Wellington £300, Dunediin £300. About a thousand men, including 600 from tho South, are in camp at Tahuna. Forty- three of the Army Service Corps men, and twenty-one Engineers and a detachment of Signallers left this morning for the big concentration camp lit Palmerston Noith. Lakes County is offering a hundred horses. GREYMOUTH, This Day. A second detachment of 77 men entrained to join the first detachment from the Coast already at Addington, making 200 in all, or over the Coast's quota on a company basis. They were farewelled by an immense crowd, which gave rousing cheers. The second detachment was practically mobilised in twenty-four hours. For instance, a man working in the bush at 2.30 p.m; yesterday was two hours later enlisted, fully equipped, and ready for the fronL. There are still numbers offering. WANGANUI, This Day. An enthusiastic meeting of tho Old Navals' Association last night resolved to offer a company of skty-five for home defence. The Wellington Meat Export Company's shareholders, at their annual meeting to-day, resolved to leave the matter of contributing to the Patriotic Fund, distress or similar funds, in tho hands of the directors. Mr. 'Donald Fraser, of Rangitikei, promised the company ton or sixteen bullocks, to _ bo turned into meat or money, as tho directors thought fit, |or war fend purposes.

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